2011 Census soon!
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It was a census of sorts but not in the sense we mean it now as it just took in landowners and even then not all of them so coverage wasn't complete. The data is indeed highly useful for future historians and in a more general sense for planning for the future.
Have a look at the ONS although you might also want to take a look at Migration Watch as I suspect they're more in line with your concerns.
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We need a proper central system anyway ...
And they have had years and years to create one, technology has been there ... and it is not as complex as people make out.
The global banking system somehow manages to talk to each other
Caporegime
Central Government System to be created ?
Yeah ask the NHS how that turns out when the Government pays a contractor to create one of them ...
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Will you be filling yours out with a calligraphy set to try and look 'different' and 'cool'?
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Yeah, it takes three (working) days to transfer from an account at Barclays to an account at Lloyds and a nanosecond to bankrupt the country
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You're opening yourself upto a fine then:-
The only question this did not apply to at the last census was question 10 - religion.
Can't give back what you haven't lost , you've always had free will, its just that you have to deal with the consequences of the choices your free will makes
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I wonder if the new census will have a question on "English, do you speak it . . . ?"
So just because the previous government was incompetent means that it is impossible?
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Says who and why? For someone who argues that the government should have minimal information it's a slightly curious position to want them to consolidate everything they've already got.
Have we always had the funds to do so even if the political will had been there? That's allowing that the technology has been there and I'm not convinced about that depending on the timescales involved.
I'm not going to ask your experience in designing governmental databases but if it were as simple as you are suggesting then why has it not been done before now? Surely any government worth its salt would love a single source of data for any and all citizens?
It's not the same thing, they've got different goals and different motivations.
I wonder if the new census will have a question on "English, do you speak it . . . ?"
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The thing to remember about the internet and these forums in particular is that everyone is an expert and always knows better from their chair than anyone who has been involved in the topic at hand for most of their adult life. Every major problem in the world could be solved if only the governments and companies and sports teams simply popped on here and did what people on here say.
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I applied for a job with the census people, twice. First time I filled out the online questionnaire sensibly and was told in an E-Mail a few days later that my answers weren't satisfactory so they wouldn't be taking my application any further. So I applied again, they invited me to fill out the questionnaire a second time which I did, filling out completely different answers to the first time and I was again told that my answers weren't satisfactory.
Fail.
Fail.
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They can and they do - they deduct the fine directly from their benefit payments.
Soldato
I have never filled in a census form and I am not about to start now.
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Will you be filling yours out with a calligraphy set to try and look 'different' and 'cool'?
If you're implying that I use a font that I happen to like in order to be 'different' and 'cool' then you're very much mistaken. Keep this on topic please.
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